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B. A. BRIGHT. METHOD OFMAKING CIGAR BUNGHES.

No. 451,750. Patented May 5,1891.

Mme/om I @191. 550 44441X UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

RICHARD A. BRIGHT, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, ASSIGNOR TO WALTER A. PEOK, OF SAME PLACE.

METHOD OF MAKING ClGAR-BUNCHES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 451,750, dated May5, 1891. Application filed November 17, 1890. Serial No. 371,741. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RICHARD A. BRIGHT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Providence, in the State of Rhode Island, have invented a new and useful Improvement in the Method of Making Cigar-Bunches, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a quantity of cigar-fillers so prepared that in the formation of ciganbunches therefrom for the manufacture of tapering cigars said bunches can be made to contain the required amount of tobacco at the several sections of the bunch with the exercise of much less skill on the part of the maker than is required in the ordinary method of manuture; and to this end my invention consists in arranging a layer of transversely-placed filler-leaves of suitable depth, the fillers being preferably of a length about equal to the length of the cigar to be formed, and also arranging a similar layer of fillers having a shorter length,and then selecting from the first-men tioned layer a suitable quantity of the longer fillers and from the last-mentioned layer a suitable quantity of the shorter fillers to form together a properly filled and tapered cigar-bunch, and then combining the same by properly arranging them in the hand or in a suitable rolling-chamber preparatory to winding on the binder to form the bunch.

Figure 1 represents a top view of a prepared layer of the long cigar-fillers adapted to carry out my improvement. Fig. 2 represents an end view of the same. Fig.3 represents a top view of a prepared layer-of the shorter fillers, by means of which the desired taper may be given to the bunch. Fig.4 represents an end View of the same. Fig. 5 represents a suitable portion removed from the layer of the long cigar-fillers shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 6 represents a suitable portion removed from the layer of the shorter cigar-fillers shown in Fig. 3. Fig. 7 represents a top view showing the removed layer portions placed the one upon the other. Fig. 8 represents a side view of the same. Fig. 9 represents a completed bunch formed by winding the combined layer portions in a suitable binder.

In the accompanying drawings, A, Figs. 1 and 2, represents a layer of transversely-arranged long fillers, and which may be prepared either by breaking the filler-leaves, as usual in the manufacture of cigars by hand, or by slightly cutting out their ends in zigzag or other approved form, as set forth in Letters Patent of the United States No. 398,877, the said fillers being preferably made of about the length of the cigar to be formed, and B in Figs. 3 and 4 represents a similar layer composed of shorter fillers, and after thus preparing the separate layers A and B, I remove a certain portion a, as shown in Fig. 5, from the layer A and a certain portion 1), as shown in Fig. 6, from the layer B, and place these removed portions together, as'shown in Figs. 7 and 8, the said portions when so combined and suitably rolled in abinder serving to form the proper filling fora cigar-bunch of the required size and taper, as shown in Fig. 9.

The prepared layers of fillers A and B can be advantageously employed, either for the manufacture of cigars by hand 'or by machinery, the layers A and B being in the latter case separately fed to the machine and the separately-removed portionsbrought together I in the rolling-chamber of the binding mechanism preparatory to rolling on the binder to complete the bunch.

I claim as my invention The method of making tapered long-filler cigar-bunches, which consists in providing a layer of transversely-arranged fillers of suitable depth and of a length about equal to the length of the cigar to be formed, and also providing a similar layer of fillers of shorter length, then removinga specific portion from each layer, combining the said removed portt' ions, and putting the binder thereon, as set orth.

RICHARD A. BRIGHT.

Witnesses:

W. H. THURSTON, S. SCHOLFIELD. 

